The Deconstruction Podcast

Your general liability premium went up again this year, and unlike tariffs, there's nobody to blame and no easy way to put it on an invoice. The average GC doing $5M in revenue is paying about $48,000 more in premiums...

You can have every crew working, every truck rolling, and invoices going out the door, and still watch money leave the account for five months straight. Charlie ran into exactly that this year, and the only reason he...

Your calendar is packed through August and your revenue looks great. Then the quarter closes, you sit down with your accountant, and the profit isn't there. Kosta and Johny get into why that happens every summer and...

Most contractors treat warranty callbacks as a cost of doing business and never run the numbers. On a mid-sized HVAC shop doing $1-2M a year, a 5% callback rate can bleed out over $70,000 annually, and almost nobody is...

Only about 5% of businesses in the US and Canada ever hit a million dollars in revenue. For contractors, the gap between "doing good work" and actually crossing that mark usually comes down to a few specific things that...

Something is shifting in who's showing up to job sites. Gen Z is entering the trades faster than anyone expected, and the reasons go deeper than just a labor shortage stat. This episode gets into what's actually pulling...

Wall Street isn't investing hundreds of millions in trades training because they care about blue collar workers. BlackRock and Lowe's are doing it because they need electricians, plumbers, and HVAC techs to build AI...

Most people with a microphone in construction are giving you answers. Nobody's asking questions. That gap, between what gets said publicly about the industry and what's actually happening on job sites across Canada, is...

Most electricians who start their own company know how to wire a house. What they don't know is how to run payroll, fill a pipeline, hire the right people, or say no to work that's bleeding them dry. Elber Gamboa...

Most contractors are slow right now. Input prices are up nearly 20%, new construction starts are down, and the guys who are still busy aren't doing anything magical. They just never stopped doing the basics. This...

If you're a contractor in Canada and your pipeline has been slower than usual, this episode explains why. Daniel Foch breaks down the condo collapse, what caused it, how long it lasts, and what the recovery actually...

The construction industry is shifting fast—and if you're a contractor, you're feeling it. Rising material costs, fuel volatility, tighter margins, and more competition are forcing business owners to adapt or fall...

What does it really take to run a high-stakes construction business where mistakes aren’t an option? In this episode of The Deconstruction Podcast, we sit down with Jeff Burke, owner of Lift All Crane, to break down the...

What does it take to go from military engineer to running a successful construction business? In this episode, Preston shares how he built his company from scratch — and the real lessons that helped him grow fast. We...

Most contractors operate in silos - figuring things out alone, guarding information, and learning through trial and error. But what if that’s actually holding your construction business back? In this episode, we sit...